President Uriah Anderson welcomed everyone to the Centerville Rotary Club and led reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Brian Hayes provided the prayer.
Today’s quote provided by Don Overly: “To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man (and woman ) comprised in a few words." – Abigail Adams, Second First Lady of the United States
Today’s Announcements:
- Thank you to our greeters today: Bob Daley and Jackie D’Aurora
- Welcome today’s guests: Brad Huffman’s daughter, Bella, here for the last week before school starts; Gina Smith’s friends, Cyndi Culhane & Tammy Wright.
- Our August board meeting is Monday, the 17th at 5:30 pm at the Washington Township Joyce Young Center.
- Rotary Women Connect is meeting on Thursday the 20th at 5:30 pm at Swoon in Oakwood..
- The next club social is Monday, August 24th from 5 to 7 pm at Reclaim Ceramics in Uptown Centerville. Please RSVP to Sofie by Sunday the 23rd.
Happy Bucks recipient this quarter is District 6670 Local Disaster Relief.
Boyd Preston was our Sergeant at Arms with assistance by Brian Hayes.
Happy Bucks were generously given for:
- Boyd P for the sun, and the nice Boomerfest at St Leonards this past weekend.
- Dan J for after a long search, he has hired new people and is excited to have them on board.
- Dan S for a great family weekend at Norris Lake.
- Dale B announced the Trustees appointed Gary Smiga (current Fiscal Officer) as the Trustee to replace Sharon Lowry, who passed away recently and will name a new Fiscal Officer within 30 days. However, the Township must have a Fiscal Officer so they appointed Dale to fill that role until a new one can be appointed.
- Brad T announced tomorrow is his 50th wedding anniversary. Congratulations!
- Sofie A was happy her daughters are still home, and gave a welcome to Tammy, who she knows from tennis.
- Lee H Farm Report included that Miamisburg Main Street has flooded twice this year, and he shared about a Flower Farm Tour in Butler County at Morning Sun Flower Farm. Flower farms are where people can pick your own flowers and create bouquets. For more information, visit shopthefarmerscollective.com
- Socks is happy and it’s his 3 year wedding anniversary. Congratulations!
- Don S said Mallory’s flight was cancelled due to weather so she didn’t get to come home for a visit. Also, he attended the “Get the Led Out” concert at the Fraze Pavillion last night that was great.
- Mark K enjoyed the Boomerfest, and seeing the Elvis Tribute in Miamisburg, and Pat Benetar tribute at Stubbs Park. The Lions Festival is in Bellbrook this weekend and is very kid friendly, and also includes poker and bands, and is free.
- Chuck K returned from a great tour in Alaska, where they saw lots of icebergs, whales, and more. See photos below.
- Adam M for today’s guests.
- Ron H for today’s guests, and while his dog took him for a walk, he saw the neighborhood triplets waiting for bus, and found it hard to believe they are 8th graders.
- Gina S had a good book event last week, and has another one this weekend in Cincinnati. Her hubby’s band is playing in Germantown this Saturday, 4-8 pm.
- Carol K hoped all the kids going back to school have a great year.
- Bob D was happy to be a Rotarian.
- Harvey S asked if Lee can stop figuring out places for him to take Elda ;-)
- Elda GG was happy to see Bella today.
- Arnie B was happy to see Boyd doing something useful :-)
- Gary H was happy the sarcasm was not coming his way yet.
- Brad H for Bella starting school next week and celebrating her 12th Birthday and first golf match. They are off to a good start hosting Micol from Italy. She started school yesterday, and got lost a couple of times, but made some friends. Her class size at home is 30, so CHS is quite different!
Our speakers today were Rotarians Mark Kottman, Kristy Spivey, and Vince Carone.
Today’s program allowed the Club to get to know our members better. Several questions were asked of them, and they shared a lot of interesting information and thoughts.
Mark sells residential real estate and small farms, lives in Centerville now but spent most of his life in Bellbrook.
Kristy is a financial analyst at Amentum, and lives in Centerville with her husband, Blake.
Vince is an exercise specialist and professional power lifter, lives in Kettering, and gives advice/general guidelines on proper diet.
Vince’s professional power lifting includes the squat, bench, and dead lift, and he is currently #2 in his weight class in the World. In October, he is competing at the York Barbell HOF (PA) where only 30 people were invited to compete. He trains 4 days/week and has been doing this for 10-15 years.
Mark was asked if he has seen unusual things in houses? He replied he has seen some pretty ugly houses. They stage the house, if needed - usually organize and get rid of things. Similar size houses can appear different sizes based on furniture and clutter in the house.
Kristy loves working with spreadsheets, and her main job is making sure they’re making money.
Mark share some 1040 sq ft, 1 car garage houses in Moraine that originally sold for $10,500 are now going for $190,00-200,000!
In her spare time, Kristy likes to read, shop, spend time together with her husband, and visit siblings in Lima. Her husband is an EMT so he’s very busy. She loves dystopian books and romance. Among the Brave was her favorite book when she was younger.
Vince received a 2-year degree at Sinclair. He said all health majors are in one building now so it makes it easy for training. He highly recommends Sinclair to anyone interested in health degrees.
Mark said lots of people don’t go in the office anymore but he works in the office each day. He works 7 days a week and has no interest in retiring because he loves his job.
Vince has had both shoulders scoped and cleaned out, and partial tears of other muscles. He hired a coach, and with his training, he doesn’t experience as many injuries. He is earning money now that he’s competing on a professional level. He got into physical therapy so he can learn how to take care of his body so he can compete as long as possible.
Career Advice?
Vince said he was in insurance base work, but health care has changed so much that he doesn’t want to work in that any more.
Kristy gave the advice that you should do something that makes you happy. Her parents pushed her to make money, but she found a job she loves doing.
Mark said to find something you enjoy doing, with potential for advancement.
Any Pets?
Mark has had dogs, but has none currently.
Kristy has a dog, cat, and new kitten.
Vince has a dog.
Do you use AI in work?
Kristy doesn’t use it at work, but does in personal life use to double check her work.
Mark uses it - he writes something and then asks AI to clean it up, and also uses it to create characters on social media.
Vince said they outpatient systems have an AI assistant, it can listen to conversations and summarize them, but he doesn’t use it for documentation of treatment plans.
Vince watches the older guys he trains with to learn what not to do. He takes the training more seriously now.
Kristy moved right after graduation, and became more independent at a young age.
Mark is more health conscious. He started 15 years ago with coaching, where they share problems, ideas, and new products, and come to table with goals each week which helps keep them on track.
